H1N1 - Goldman, the Fed, Citigroup

[ssent]

My employer has been trying to get the vaccine for us for at least a month now and can not. We were told Friday they're trying to go through the University of Iowa Hospitals and it will be at least another month before we can get our flu shots. Then I read a couple of days ago that employees of Goldman, the Fed, Citigroup, and other banks are getting their H1N1 vaccine allotments now. WTF? This stinks to high heaven. I guess it should come as no surprise that those at the top of the food chain get preferential treatment on all levels. Then again, banks have become parasitic, so why should I expect anything different? If you don’t work for a big, influential company, get to the back of the line! Welcome to the class system in action.

[Stoker1]

I'm still leery of the vaccination. Totally rushed and no one knows of the long term side effects. Naturally we all want to do the right thing, but is it worth it? Now if I were to contract the flu would I say no, don't give me the shot? Nah. Pass one my way with a cocktail. :D

[powerabout]

have you seen the email going around the world...
a summary says

Only License for Oseltamivir ( Tamiflu) is to
Gilhead Science
Roche manufactuere it under license.
Its protected to 2016 by patent
Chairman and stockholder is/was
Donald Rumsfeld

More people die from lightening strikes.
Certainly way more people die from the common flu
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oseltamivir

read this
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/SwineFlu/story?id=7584420&page=1&page=1
Rumsfeld is Dr Evil holding the world to ransom
http://www.smh.com.au/business/world-business/swine-flu-may-be-a-lab-error-aussie-researcher-20090513-b2zh.html?page=-1

[j_martin]

crisis crisis crisis
crisis

quit buying into it.

[1BadAction]

crisis crisis crisis
crisis

quit buying into it.
:iagree:

[ozziffied]

:iagree::iagree:
crisis crisis crisis
crisis

quit buying into it.

[ssent]

I've had the flu shot years ago and I DID get sick several days after recieving the vaccine. They claim these vaccines have been improved from the one I had 15+ yrs ago. I'm really not so sure I want another one either. We do have several germaphobes that are just dying to get theirs. Some of these people won't touch handrails, doorknobs, desks or tabletop, keyboard etc..... and lord forbid they go into the truckers' lounge at work. Who knows where all those truckers have been. :eek: Give me a freakin break. I told a couple people as joke that if I got the flu was gonna come to work anyway. Why I thought I might even caugh on my hand and wipe all the doorknobs. :D I was reported to management and had to have a conference with the boss. :nonod: Apparently it wasn't a laughing matter.

[Stoker1]

I told a couple people as joke that if I got the flu was gonna come to work anyway. Why I thought I might even caugh on my hand and wipe all the doorknobs. :D I was reported to management and had to have a conference with the boss. :nonod: Apparently it wasn't a laughing matter.

Thats almost like using the 'b' word near an airplane. Considering the flu is something that can wipe out an office pretty quick.

[ssent]

Thats almost like using the 'b' word near an airplane. Considering the flu is something that can wipe out an office pretty quick.

I guess your right since they could see no humor in my sarcasm. :thumbsup:

[Stoker1]

Thats why I keep a bottle of hand sanitizer on all my employees desks including my own and request that they use it. Even go around wiping the phones down, staplers and the copier buttons down with anti-bacterial ever so often. Still manage to pass the crap back & forth but at least I feel better knowing we try. As far as your situation, a little humor in the office goes a LONG ways. :)

[Hydrophobic guy]

The only shot I take to combat the flu is a takillya shot. :thumbsup:

[j_martin]

The only shot I take to combat the flu is a takillya shot. :thumbsup:

When I was in the Navy, sometime in the last ice age, I had the crud so bad I could hardly breath. I visited a friend up in the hills of South Carolina, and he handed me a pint jar of everclear and said "try this".

I chugged about half of it, flopped over backwards, and woke up cured about 8 hours later. Not even hung over, just cured.

Man, that was some stuff.

John

[Hydrophobic guy]

everclear

Man, that was some stuff.

John

Still is! :eek:

[powerabout]

I wonder what the governemnts of the world dished out during WWII

One statistic is that 99% of people that either have or have died from Cancer of the bowel were alive during WWII
they're still trying to find out why?

[j_martin]

I wonder what the governemnts of the world dished out during WWII

One statistic is that 99% of people that either have or have died from Cancer of the bowel were alive during WWII
they're still trying to find out why?

Have you ever eaten past era C-rations.
It makes MRE's look like fine dining.

[powerabout]

j_martin
When i was at school ( late 70's) we all did 'cadets' dress up in army stuff one day a week and go away to regular army places and shoot things with our SLR's
(we thought M16's were toys as they were plastic) and each other with blanks.

The bit I do remember was the food, great, maybe our Italian and Greek immigrants did the menu for Vietnam after seeing the WWII stuff?

You haven't lived until youv'e fired an M60 Rambo style at night
( not that I was strong enough to do that by myself!)
and slipped a vegemite tin in the fire of some unsuspecting punters and then it blows up with hot black stuff everywhere...ah the memories
( bullet proof and invisible as they say)
where were we?